minorité
French
noun
Definitions
- minority the state of being a minor, youth, period of life preceding adulthood
- minority any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin minoritās borrowed from English minority affix from French mineur.
Origin
French
mineur
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiminority English
- minoritary English
- minoritize English
- minority English
- minorityhood English
- nonminority English
- subminority English
- superminority English
- minor Latin
- minoritas Latin
- minoritās Latin
- Minorität German
- mineur French
- minoritet Norwegian Bokmål
- マイノリティー Japanese
- minoritet Norwegian Nynorsk
- miner Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- minorité Middle French